Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reminded that the chief objection to a closed shop was that for the working majority it gave a monopolistic privilege, Watt answered that the minority must be a factor in an agreement also...
After their differences were ironed out at Stresa, it was possible that with Hitler's preoccupation of the French the Italians might act independently of Britain and the Gallician republic. An agreement with the French by which they promised to oppose the Nazification of Austria assured them a free hand in Ethiopia...
...lengthy meeting held at Cypress Hall in Central Square open discussion was followed by a secret debate among members of the organization. After it was made known that agreement to considerations posted last week on the bulletin boards was not reached, it was indicated that a final decision will be revealed within a few days...
...default of the Farm Bill the Senate should proceed to another item on the President's program, his executive reorganization proposals. But anti-lynching advocates led by Missouri's stocky Bennett Clark, one of the Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this would violate their agreement. At this juncture Vice President Garner, who like his chief had an aching tooth and wanted no part of the headache that was to follow, surrendered his gavel to Senator Clark. No sooner had Anti-Lyncher Clark recognized Anti-Lyncher Wagner to introduce debate on his bill than Texas...
...weeks before his death last December, 78-year-old Philanthropist Mc-Kinlock asked the Northwestern trustees to cancel his contract to finance the campus. His holdings had depreciated so greatly during the Depression that he could not meet his pledges. Last week Northwestern made public an agreement which showed, that far from being spiteful towards a former benefactor who had had misfortune, it had made an arrangement with him to change the name of its campus and refund to the McKinlock family in five annual installments $155,717 which he had already paid...